It’s been just over a year since Intel unveiled Medfield, its first phone SoC, and 10 months since the first devices to use the platform began to hit the market. Medfield was an important launch for Intel — it demonstrated that the company could build x86 chips to smartphone specifications — but the company’s stated goal, from day one, was to produce a competitive product — not a jaw-dropping market leader.
Today, at Mobile World Conference 2013 in Barcelona, Intel is launching Medfield’s successor, codenamed Clover Trail+. The name is rather confusing, since Clover Trail is a tablet platform — Intel could’ve simplified this by calling the new chip “Medfield+.” Nevertheless, Clover Trail+ is a smartphone product. The actual chip will be known as the Atom Z2580 with XMM 6360 (that’s Intel’s own modem solution). The modem is a slight upgrade over the XMM 6260 that shipped with Medfield last year; the 6360 supports up to 42Mbps over HSDPA in a significantly smaller package. Also at MWC, Intel has announced a bunch of Bay Trail (next-gen, out-of-order Atom) and Medfield product wins.
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